The Book of Songs is regarded as the origin of Chinese literature and has a prolonged impact on Chinese culture, aesthetics, and morality. In this work, we will share how we analyze the 305 poems...

The visualization is created using Tableau software, and some design elements are created with MS PowerPoint. This viz represents the number of appearances of different characters in Marvel Comic....

How much, and how often do characters speak in nine famous Shakespeare plays?

A Map of Mid-00s Indie Band Influence.

Changing the Narrative informs and educates young adults about the history of true crime podcasts and how they have brought awareness to and solved cases and given power to people.

Star Wars Colors is a data visualization about the physical traits and basic information of the Star Wars characters, which were represented as a card game of Lightsabers. This dataviz has a data...

Analyzing Shakespear's play, we look at main characters (spoken word dialog accounts for at least 10% of total dialog) and their spoken words in each scene. Outer bands represent each scene in the...

How do you make a list better than just a list? For Pitchfork’s 25th anniversary, readers submitted their favorite songs and albums of the last 25 years. We took that list of results and created a...

Sampling Donuts explores the use of sampled music on J Dilla's instrumental hip-hop album, Donuts. The project combines data gathered from WhoSampled, a user-generated website of hip-hop samples,...

The conventional history of art is all of great men making great paintings, and displaying their works to a predominantly male audience. Imbalance, however, brings to light the recognition and...

Are romantic movies always composed of happiness? Feelings are hard to be measurable on screen, but can we “watch” movie from unorthodox perspectives? This project is to visualize the sentiment in...

The project is a multimedia version of the research that we made for The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. We analyzed video of more than 100 cameras located in different museum areas...

What three years and 75,000 shows in New York tell us about the chance your favorite band will succeed.

Learning about ancient history can sometimes feel like rote memorization: old names, old dates, etc. For this visualization, I wanted to show the history of the Roman Empire in vivid color. It...

Christopher Nolan`s Thriller Memento deals with a man who suffers from a short-term memory loss, an alleged murder and the nature of the crime. Furthermore the component of vengeance is addressed....

When the 10 Year Challenge hit social media in January 2019, I challenged myself to do a datafied version. One of the few personal data sources I have that goes back 10 years is my Last.fm logs and...

Patterns in Fantasy book titles Fantasy books are a wonderful genre within literature. With their brick sized formats and series spanning a dozen books or more, many amazing worlds, very different...

How High We Go in the Dark is a novel by Sequoia Nagamatsu. Told through interconnected short stories, this book follows a climate-induced global pandemic over thousands of years, exploring themes...

Google Trends allows you to compare multiple search terms to determine which was more popular in Google searches in a given time frame and geographical location. I was curious as to how some search...

Only a very select few moments in history match the gravity and resonance of the sinking of the Titanic in the Spring of 1912. Hubris, class, Empire, terror, anguish, despair, reflection. This...

The film industry is one of the most impactful sectors in our society and it has been influencing our values and opinions for decades now. Many key roles in the industry have been dominated by men....

Mawangdui  No.1 Han Tomb is an influential cultural heritage in China. It has a lot of elegant unearthed cultural relics which includes a variety of fabrics.This work makes a brief introduction of...

Jingxiu is an ancient Chinese traditional embroidery craft, a general term for embroidery products centered around Beijing. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties it began to flourish. It was mostly...

This is a visual essay about the impacts of asphalt art on roadway safety. It visualizes data from Bloomberg Philanthropies and showcases how intersections across the United States enjoy greater...

Each piece of music has a key: the note on which the whole harmonic composition is built.  How can we use this information to visually represent the complexity of a musician's production over...

The data visualisation depicts the important aspects of the World Peace Dome in Pune, India. It visualises a tourist attractions and information required by people to visit the monument and...

Hand-drawn infographics shows all Quentin Tarantino's movies in chronological order. It compares year & month of a premier, budget & box office, movie length & rating. Based on the...

A nonlinear narrative is a storytelling device that portrays events of a story out of chronological order. Story curves visualize the nonlinear narrative of a movie by showing the order in which...

The atmosphere of the kitchen in the Great cold of China. It shows the distribution, production and difference of traditional food in different parts of China during the 24 solar terms and the...

Radiohead has been my favorite band for a while, so I am used to people politely suggesting that I play something “less depressing.” Much of Radiohead’s music is undeniably sad, and this post...